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For well over a century, the image of a mysteriously smiling 19th-century death mask of an unknown young woman drowned in the Seine has exerted a powerful hold on the imaginations of artists, composers and philosophers. Captured in the dawn of the photographic age, it has become an icon of beauty and femininity, a symbol of transience and a mystery for the ages.

Creatives/Company

Music: Frederik Neyrinck
Lyrics: Sabryna Pierre

Archive listings for Icon

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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Developed in part during a Snape Residency, this collaboration between composer, writer, architect and photographer attempts to address these themes of a visual age by creating a music drama from one of Europe's most enduring modern myths. Projected film and images wrap themselves round Frederik Neyrinck's flickering, ghostly score, and the clarity of boundaries between protaganists, and even between performers and audience blurs, dissolves and fades like an over-exposed photo. UK Premiere. Sung in Engish. Please note that this performance includes intermittent strobe lighting effects.Performer Lieselot De Wilde (soprano). Performer Tibo Vandenborre (actor). Conductor Joey Marijs. Director Atelier Bildraum. Company Orchestra Asko Schonberg.

12 Jun 19

Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh :: V75
listing details L857513095

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